I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
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